The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-06
A PitifnI story.

Scott, the young lady who killed herself Fri
day evening by shooting, was announced
promptly in the Sentinel. At the inquest here
pitiful experience was revealed. She shot her
self in the presence of her betrayer, falling dead
at his feet. The following letters tell a sad
story: One letter, dated March so, reads as fol-
lows:
"DEAR WnLIE-I have not received letter
from you for some time, and it seems as though
you don't care for me any more. How few
lines from you have often made my heart happy.
Don't you think that if you were in my place,
and in yours and you loved me as l do you
that would be better to you than you are TO
me? Oh don't know how am going to give
you up. Oh, Mack, please don't force me to
give you mp. or, il you do, die I will, and ask
you not to cause my death just to please others.
Oh, love none.but you. Dor TO WILLIE"
Another letter, among other things, says:
''Ob, Mack, you are the whole cause of my death.
Do, for Gods sake, keep all my secrets. l will
ask no more if you will only see that my grave
is placed by the side OF my little brother who
faced death long ago. Oh, ! must die. can't
help it. To stand this 1 can't. on, do go to my
burial, won't you? want you to have me
buried without it costing much, and you please
pay all the expenses, for don't want any of my
come and stay with my body until it is laid in
the silent grave, or l viii never rest satisfied,
even after death. ] don't want you to ever marry
any one, for loved you and gave my heart 10
you, ana died for you. l can't give you up with
out death, so l mean to put stop to my
troubles. You are The only one that ever did
overcome me, and now, slnce you have
ruined me and my health, you mean to
go away from me; but, Mack, you are badly
fooled. Ny spirit can follow you any place you
go, and ] can be with you dead if 1 can't be
with you now. You want me dead, AMI viii
die to please you, but il live to be hundred
years old don't trouble no other poor girl as you
have me. SO, darling please forgive me, as
have forgiven you aud all others. Goodbye Ior-
ever. Never viii get to speak to you again in
life. Oh, what death to die. JANE SC0Tr."
On another sheet the poor girl wrote as fol
lows:
81 an tired of life and ready for the grave
which is waiting for my trOub ed bJdy. Oh,
how have been troubled! No one knows how
every one OF my relatives have talked atOutme;
but, thank God, am innocent. could not live
without the one / love so truly, but hope to
meet him in heaven. God forgive all, as have,
is my wish. 1 am ready to end my troubled life.
! Never again will ] see the hours OF pain and
torture l have endured. Please forget me.
| Farewell, Mack. forever, Kiss. JAMIE"
Owing to the fact that they were cousins and
could not under the laws of this State marry,
| the parents of the young man objected to his
| going with Jsnie, but he had gone long enough
TO win her love, and she could not bear the sep.
arstion. The young man was seen to-day by
| your correspondent, and .ells the following
story: 81 wrote jamie a letter last Tuesday,
saying that we must separate, and that could
| not come to see her again. Yesterday evening
she came to the fence around the field where
was working, and asked me to come aud get a
letter she had. told her to lay the letter on
the fence and go home and would get it, but
she refused, and finally went and got it, but
refused to talk to her and started back to work.
| After going few steps looked back and saw
| her with the revolver at her head, and turned
away for, didn't want to see her shoot herself.
Just then 1 heard the report, and looking back
saw her fall l then went back to my plow,
| plowed a furrow across the field, hitched the
| horses and went home and told my father, and
we went back together, i staid By the body
while be went to her house and called her two
brothers and her father. Her father tried to
shoot me, but the boys held him. There never
was any engagement on my part to merry jamie,
and never had.criminal intercourse With her"
Such is young scott's story, and he displayed
no more emotion in telling it than II II was an
every day occurrence.